Bloglines
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 Bloglines feed view (Windows XP, Firefox 2.0) |
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| URL | http://www.bloglines.com |
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| Type of site | RSS aggregator |
| Registration | Required, Free |
| Owner | Ask.com |
| Created by | Mark Fletcher |
| Launched | 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for browsing weblogs and other news feeds via syndicated feeds utilizing technologies such as Really Simple Syndication and ATOM. Unlike other feed readers that download posts directly to one's device, Bloglines is a server-side aggregation system, where blog entries are downloaded and updated on the server on a frequent basis [1].
Users then subscribe to as well as read individual feeds via the web portal, which provides them with the ability to access their feeds from any computer, not just the computer on which they have installed a particular RSS Reader [2].
Mark Fletcher, former CEO of ONElist, founded the site in 2003 and sold it in February 2005 to Ask.com [3].
[edit] Awards
- Included in Time Magazine's Top 50 Web Sites for 2004 [4]
- Voted Best Blog/Feed Search Engine by the Search Engine Watch Awards in 2005 [5]
- BusinessWeek's Best of the New Web, Blog Readers [6]
